The 1944 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 7, 1944. All forty-eight contemporary States were part of the 1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President. A larger relative population in New Mexico increased the number of presidential electors from the state to four, from three in the previous election cycle.
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County Results
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New Mexico was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt,[1] against Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey, who was making his first bid for the presidency.
Results edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic |
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81,389 | 53.47% | −3.12 | |
Republican | 70,688 | 46.44% | +3.16 | ||
Prohibition | 148 | 0.10% | +0.05 | ||
Total votes | 152,225 | 100.00% | |||
Democratic win |
Results by county edit
County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt[2] Democratic |
Thomas Edmund Dewey[2] Republican |
Claude A. Watson Prohibition |
Margin | ||||
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% | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | |
Eddy | 71.35% | 5,228 | 28.43% | 2,083 | 0.22% | 16 | 42.92% | 3,145 |
Lea | 70.49% | 2,938 | 29.44% | 1,227 | 0.07% | 3 | 41.05% | 1,711 |
Hidalgo | 68.74% | 807 | 31.26% | 367 | 0.00% | 0 | 37.48% | 440 |
Grant | 63.75% | 3,472 | 36.17% | 1,970 | 0.07% | 4 | 27.58% | 1,502 |
Quay | 60.88% | 2,272 | 38.83% | 1,449 | 0.29% | 11 | 22.05% | 823 |
Roosevelt | 59.44% | 2,359 | 40.56% | 1,610 | 0.00% | 0 | 18.87% | 749 |
McKinley | 58.78% | 2,210 | 41.14% | 1,547 | 0.08% | 3 | 17.63% | 663 |
Curry | 58.32% | 3,271 | 41.47% | 2,326 | 0.21% | 12 | 16.85% | 945 |
Doña Ana | 56.94% | 4,172 | 42.98% | 3,149 | 0.08% | 6 | 13.96% | 1,023 |
Otero | 56.28% | 1,892 | 43.63% | 1,467 | 0.09% | 3 | 12.64% | 425 |
Luna | 56.24% | 1,383 | 43.68% | 1,074 | 0.08% | 2 | 12.57% | 309 |
De Baca | 54.28% | 660 | 45.56% | 554 | 0.16% | 2 | 8.72% | 106 |
San Miguel | 53.83% | 4,684 | 46.13% | 4,014 | 0.05% | 4 | 7.70% | 670 |
Colfax | 53.07% | 3,017 | 46.81% | 2,661 | 0.12% | 7 | 6.26% | 356 |
Rio Arriba | 51.75% | 3,792 | 48.21% | 3,532 | 0.04% | 3 | 3.55% | 260 |
Chaves | 51.41% | 3,350 | 48.33% | 3,149 | 0.26% | 17 | 3.08% | 201 |
Bernalillo | 51.16% | 12,229 | 48.79% | 11,662 | 0.05% | 13 | 2.37% | 567 |
Taos | 49.67% | 2,525 | 50.30% | 2,557 | 0.04% | 2 | -0.63% | -32 |
Socorro | 49.18% | 1,967 | 50.75% | 2,030 | 0.08% | 3 | -1.57% | -63 |
Sandoval | 48.44% | 1,354 | 51.48% | 1,439 | 0.07% | 2 | -3.04% | -85 |
Guadalupe | 48.27% | 1,539 | 51.73% | 1,649 | 0.00% | 0 | -3.45% | -110 |
Lincoln | 47.91% | 1,342 | 51.95% | 1,455 | 0.14% | 4 | -4.03% | -113 |
Sierra | 47.37% | 1,008 | 52.26% | 1,112 | 0.38% | 8 | -4.89% | -104 |
Santa Fe | 47.27% | 4,915 | 52.73% | 5,482 | 0.00% | 0 | -5.45% | -567 |
Valencia | 47.06% | 2,461 | 52.88% | 2,765 | 0.06% | 3 | -5.81% | -304 |
Catron | 45.69% | 589 | 54.23% | 699 | 0.08% | 1 | -8.53% | -110 |
Union | 45.62% | 1,350 | 54.21% | 1,604 | 0.17% | 5 | -8.58% | -254 |
Mora | 44.41% | 1,425 | 55.56% | 1,783 | 0.03% | 1 | -11.16% | -358 |
Harding | 44.10% | 647 | 55.90% | 820 | 0.00% | 0 | -11.79% | -173 |
San Juan | 43.03% | 1,093 | 56.61% | 1,438 | 0.35% | 9 | -13.58% | -345 |
Torrance | 41.61% | 1,438 | 58.28% | 2,014 | 0.12% | 4 | -16.67% | -576 |
References edit
- ^ "1944 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
- ^ a b Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 307 ISBN 0405077114